The idea that travel fosters an enlightened cosmopolitanism with its belief in tolerance and human solidarity is one of the commonplaces of eighteenth-century literature In this paper I challenge this view by showing that crossing boundaries, far from bringing wisdom and understanding, may result in the negative experience of dislocation, unease and loss of identity Behin..
This paper investigates the absurdity of stratified Southern society through the episodes of slavery in Pudd`nhead Wilson The analysis of a slave-holding town, Dawson`s Landing, raises an important question about the superficial peace and moral consciousness of the South And Twain attacks town people`s absurd attitude by exposing their ridiculous obstinacy to violent d..
Although Dracula has been discussed from the various angles like as feminism, fantasy, and the gothic novel, the novel can be interpreted from the viewpoint of Imperialism The first evidence of my argument is that the novel can be read as a travel writing which is one of the outstanding genres of Imperialism In the novel, although there are several narrators who explain thei..
Stephen Crane`s representation of war in The Red Badge of Courage is different from that of other contemporary popular war novels, such as Richard Harding Davis` Soldiers of Fortune The contemporary novelists utilized the war literature as to encourage or promote the martial spirit, which was needed to dispel the confused and sometimes riotous moods of the American socie..
The crisis of values marked the period in which Jane Austen worked as a female writer This was so because many prejudices had been eliminated and yet still many values coexisted One of the most remarkable things in Austen`s time was the attempt to redefine the notion of femininity by feminist writers, which was closely related with the cultural milieu in which women emer..
This paper examines how a nameless narrator in Gilman`s The Yellow Wallpaper has been repressed by the reign of phallocentric culture and attempts to pursue her own independence and freedom by writing about herself This paper will employ Helene Cixous`s theory on feminine writing, in order to analyze the importance of feminine writing in this novel Cixous insists that ..
This essay intends to interrogate Isabel Archer`s choices and the problematic ending in Henry James`s The Portrait of a Lady Many critics agree that her choices are related to the problem of her liberty and independence In this respect, this work is about her growth, which shows how Isabel`s choices and her liberty conflict with convention, and how she is assimilated to th..
The trinity of associations formed in the popular imagination between the names, Dlckens, Scrooge, and Christmas, is something that cannot be fully explained by Louis Cazamian`s famous notion of a certain Christmas philosophy to which Dickens was supposedly committed The problem has less to do with a Christmas philosophy than with a Christmas political economy that under..
In this article, I try to approach this work from a feminist point of view by focussing on Eppie In detail, I study a role that Eppie plays in relation to Silas Marner and Godfrey Cass and how much Eppie is different from the other heroines in her choice of Marner and how this difference is evaluated from feminist view Eppie makes Marner not only recover his love and faith in..
This article traces irony and parody in the latter part of Jane Austen`s Pride and Prejudice that takes the form of Bildungsroman, which is believed to be inconsistent with the earlier part of the novel wherein comic mood resulting from irony and parody is prevalent Externally the self-recognition of Elizabeth and Darcy allows them to overcome all social obstacles and lead..
This study examines the question of female identity of 19th century American women that is portrayed in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett(1849-1909) within the cultural context of New England Jewett, a New England woman writer, reveals that the idealized image of womanhood, True Womanhood, is a myth that ideologically distorts the true nature of women The True Womanhood myt..
Jane Campion`s The Piano has been widely acclaimed as a rare achievement of Feminism since its first release in 1994 However, little has been so far systematically analyzed as to subversive energies running through the film, particularly, in the light of the French Femmists` discourses formulated by Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous I propose to examine some Implications ..